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Responsive Design: WordPress NYC Meetup Recap

April 19, 2012 By Chrisdigital 12 Comments

Responsive Design: WordPress NYC Meetup Recap

To say “responsive design” is a hot topic right now is an understatement. As proof, just google it, and you’ll find great resources and articles about it online. In addition, as it relates to this specific meetup (agenda listed on that page) – I was one of 60+ people that were on a waiting list for this CBS Local venue that holds 120 and I was lucky to get in. The WPNYC community definitely wanted to hear what the speakers had to say. Sonja Liex (link to slides provided), and Jack Reichert (link to slides provided) were game and I thought they gave a great overview of the issues developers face with the explosive growth of web-enabled devices…

Filed Under: WordPress Tagged With: adaptive, blog theming, CSS3, media queries, Meetup, responsive design, responsive wordpress, WordPress

Useful wordpress comment plugins

April 18, 2010 By Chrisdigital Leave a Comment

Useful wordpress comment plugins

Recently, I was looking into spicing up my comments section with plug-ins. I was inspired by the folks over at inkrebels.com and these posts in particular, “20 typical mistakes made by new bloggers and 8 types of posts that get maximum comments. I started looking for ways to make this blog more comment-friendly. I also […]

Filed Under: Bookmark Links Tagged With: WordPress, WordPress CMS, WordPress comments plugins, WordPress theme tip

Using WordPress custom fields to customize display

April 18, 2010 By Chrisdigital Leave a Comment

Using WordPress custom fields to customize display

Jeff Star over at Perishablepress.com produced a great tutorial using a custom image gallery as an example of how to use custom fields. This helped me visualize how to approach my bookmarks section of this blog. This tutorial combined with a trip over to the WordPress Codex section on custom fields, this entry from Smashing […]

Filed Under: Bookmark Links Tagged With: WordPress, WordPress CMS, WordPress theme tip

Excluding categories from your RSS feed

April 18, 2010 By Chrisdigital Leave a Comment

Excluding categories from your RSS feed

If you’re customizing WordPress, sometimes you’ll run into a case where you want to exclude a category from your RSS feed. For example – if you want to single out that category into it’s own feed and hide it from the main feed. Jaypee Habaradas over at Jaypeeonline.net has a simple tutorial that walks you […]

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Custom single.php templates for WordPress post categories

April 18, 2010 By Chrisdigital Leave a Comment

Custom single.php templates for WordPress post categories

Over at NathanRice.net Nathan covers different methods you can use to accomplish utilizing alternate customized single.php templates for WordPress post categories, including a plugin he developed. There’s no native way to present different categories of posts in a special way (only pages), except perhaps hacking the posts query, or doing show/hide with CSS or jQuery. […]

Filed Under: Bookmark Links Tagged With: WordPress, WordPress CMS, WordPress theme tip

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